Congress of Future Medical Leaders Preliminary Schedule

Day One

4:00 PM — Doors Open. Find Your Seat and Meet Your Fellow Congress Delegates!

6:00 PM — Program Begins

• Joint Color Guard Presentation of the Colors
• National Anthem sung by a Congress Delegate
• Greetings and Welcome by Emcee and Academy Executive Director Richard Rossi
• Icebreaker Group Activity
• Delegates Mentored by 2020 TIME Top Young Innovator and Congress Alumnus Gitanjali Rao 
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, the First Surgeon to Perform a Full Face Transplant in the U.S. and Chief of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at Yale School of Medicine
• Delegates Mentored by Carmen Tarleton, Recipient of the Nation’s Fifth Full Face Transplant and the second in the world to receive a second face transplant.
• Questions for Dr. Pomahac and Ms. Tarleton from Congress Delegates
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Nancy Brown, Dean of the Yale School of Medicine and Professor of Internal Medicine.
• Questions for Dr. Brown from Congress Delegates
• Delegates Mentored by Congress Alumnus and CEO & Founder of Rebokeh, Rebecca Rosenberg
• Small Group Writing and Sharing Exercise
• Wrap-up Activity and Remarks by Richard Rossi

9:30 PM — Adjourn

Day Two

8:30 AM — Doors Open

10:00 AM  — Program Begins

• Introduction of the day’s activities by Richard Rossi
• Inspiring Group Activity
• Delegates Mentored by MIT undergraduate student and 2019 Gordon Moore Award Winner, International Science & Engineering Fair, Krithik Ramesh
• Delegates Mentored by Mike Koenigs, a pioneer in teaching Generative AI to executives 
• Inspiring Collaborative Group Activity
• Delegates Mentored by Heman Bekele, winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Deborah Bedor, Nationally Recognized College Admissions Expert and CEO of College Admission Central
• Wrap up Delegate Small Group Exercise

12:30-3:00 PM — Lunch Break and Speaker Meet & Greet

• Delegates Mentored by Congress Grand Master Dr. Timothy Nelson, CEO and Co-Founder of Heartworks, that is developing therapies to cure congenital heart defect
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and Community Healthcare Hero
• Inspiring Collaborative Small Group Activity
• Questions for Dr. Galiatsatos from Congress Delegates
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Gary Richter, Owner and Medical Director of Holistic Veterinary Care and Voted America’s Favorite Veterinarian
• Delegates Mentored by Leanne Fan, Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge
• Collaborative Small Group Activity
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Stephen Ray Mitchell, Dean, Georgetown Medical School (2000-2020)
• Questions for Dr. Mitchell from the Congress Delegates

6:00-8:00 PM — Dinner Break and Speaker Meet & Greet

• Delegates Mentored by the National Academy of Future Scientists and Medical Scientists, Scientific Director Dr. Mario Capecchi, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Questions for Dr. Capecchi from Congress Delegates
• Collaborative Small Group Activity
• Delegates Inspired by Jim Kwik, expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, and optimal brain performance
• Wrap-up Activity and Remarks by Richard Rossi

9:30 PM — Adjourn

Day Three

8:30 am — Doors Open

10:00 AM — Program Begins

• Introduction of the Day’s Activities by Richard Rossi
• Collaborative Small Group Activity
• Live Surgery! Dr. Anthony Romeo, Orthopedic Surgeon and Shoulder & Elbow Specialist, moderates surgery while surgeon Dr. Justin Griffin takes questions from Delegates
• Collaborative Small-Group Breakout Exercise

12:30-3:00 PM — Lunch Break and Speaker Meet & Greet

• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Carl June, 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania. 
• Questions for Dr. June from Congress Delegates
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Nicholas Schiff, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
• Questions for Dr. Schiff from Congress Delegates
• Shake Break!
• Delegates Mentored by Dr. Andrew Anzalone, Co-Founder and Head of Prime Editing Platform at Prime Medicine, Inc. 
• Questions for Dr. Anzalone from Congress Delegates
• Collaborative Small Group Activity
• Inspiring Patient Story by Nicole Hall, Maternal Mortality Survivor
• Delegates mentored by the world-renowned body language expert, Linda Clemons, Founder of Sisterpreneur®

6:00-8:00 PM — Dinner Break and Speaker Meet & Greet

• Induction of Congress Delegates into the Society of Torch and Laurel Honor Society by Executive Director Steven Loflin
• Address to the Convocation by Dr. Stephen “Ray” Mitchell, Dean, Georgetown Medical School (2000-2020)
• Candlelit Awards Ceremony

9:30 PM — Adjourn

Past Speakers

Learn about the distinguished physicians and medical scientists who have mentored Delegates in the past.